Thread: What's in your garden?

Freddy the Christmas Tree Frog has rocked up on the balcony and demands to be fed live moths of an evening

Yams are looking particularly enticing this year.

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The Christmas frog has moved into the frogararium from the jar and been given his evening moth

Not the sharpest tool in the box this fella

Good effort Nev...



I have managed to get him eating hotdog bits from the Butcher Birds' supply. If you move a piece round with a stick he eventually goes for it which I was not expecting. This is great as it makes frog-life a little bit easier as those moths don't catch themselves.

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I'm sure he would enjoy a dessert of one of these butterflies. This guy's been enjoying our garden for most of the afternoon.

Good picture.

^^Looks frogalicious tasty PAG but the Christmas frog has moved on to pastures new due to an invasion by an extremely large insect after dinner this evening...

Veggie curry soup/stew was made for dinner by Amazonian Swiss Maori lady who likes to cook in my kitchen.

Its fruity and spicy aroma must have aroused the interest of the wildlife.

For pudding before the attack we raided the Christmas hamper one of my customers sent me.

Then after pudding was complete we were marauded by this giant 25cm long stick insect visitor from the garden. He landed on my face in the dark and I could not see what it was except that it was enormous. I swiped him onto the mattress and lucky I got the lights on and identified him before ASM took evasive action and smashed him with a pillow.

I considered feeding him to the Christmas frog but I then I thought he would have been a bit of a mouthful.

So I instead vacated the frogararium and installed the new resident, so there is an extra tree frog in my garden tonight and a new garden-resident as a house-guest.

He is 25cm long with his arms stretched out

Not in our garden, these from the market, pursat, lamyai, passionfruit.


Don't often see passionfruit on sale, these were 3kg for 100 baht. Good price, years back when living in Sa Kaeo we'd go to a pick your own orchard where they cost 20 baht per kg. They grew them on an overhead wire mesh framework. Larger and not as sweet as the purple skinned variety.